It was that its composer was the one performing it.
A fifth song, "Alone Yet Not Alone," from the eponymous film was also originally nominated for the award, but was disqualified because its composer, Bruce Broughton, violated the Academy's anti-campaigning rules.
This collaboration between an opera house and a composer is rather exceptional, especially because it has been such a long-standing one.
Alfred Brendel Royal Festival Hall, London SE1 Rusalka Exeter Northcott, Wed-Sat, then touring Burial at Thebes Oxford Playhouse, tonight It is a popular misconception that Mozart's piano concerto in E flat, K271, is known as the 'Jeunehomme' because the composer was barely 21 when he wrote it.
The composer is triumphing not because he uses an accessible language — anyone can string together superficially pleasing chords — but because he speaks it with dire conviction.
Which made sense, because the composer was Paul McCartney, trying his first ballet and being, it turns out, far more hands-on than a typical ballet composer.
The composer is not slowing down, because events keep provoking him to write music.
They were banned in Germany from 1933, and subsequently in subject countries, by the Nazi regime because the composer was Jewish, and this was a major factor in their further disappearance from the repertory.
He later gave an account of the reasons: "Frequently I misunderstood what another composer was saying simply because I had little understanding of his language.
"The fact that people today tend to use too many electronic instruments or amateur composers is because they want to spend less money".
